Kakkonen match preview: RoPS II versus SJK Akatemia

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Competition: Finland Kakkonen
Competition: Mon 05.July
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä (4000 seats)

RoPS II will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind SJK Akatemia.

Insights:
  • RoPS II have not yet lost a game at home.
  • SJK Akatemia have the most scored goals (33) in Kakkonen

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Kakkonen.

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RoPS II form and stats

There’s a good atmosphere here at Rovaniemen Keskuskenttä after three straight home wins.

RoPS faced defeat in their previous match, away at Kemi City (0-3).

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-4 away at JBK.

The RoPS manager A. Tanner has got the team scoring with 8 from 4 home games in the league. RoPS II have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals.

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SJK Akatemia form and stats

Akatemia are travelling after their nice 5-4 home win in the Kakkonen against JS Hercules (placed 5th). As you can tell from the result, the match against JS Hercules was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 9 goals, will the fun continue today?

Preceding that match was the 3-3 draw at home vs OLS.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as SJK Akatemia alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (13 from 4 played). As for defending, SJK Akatemia rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 7 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last three games between these two teams, there's one RoPS victory, zero draws and two SJK Akatemia wins. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

SJK AkatemiaK. Ofori
K. Ofori
5 goals
SJK AkatemiaG. Westerlund
G. Westerlund
4 goals

RoPS II missing players

SJK Akatemia missing players

RoPS II SJK Akatemia
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 1 4 8
4 3 1 Won W 0 2 5
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
3 0 0 Lost L 1 2 2
11 8 3 Scored S 2 13 33
10 2 2 Conceded C 3 7 16
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 75% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 100%
25% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 100%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 75% 75%
25% 25% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 88%
50% 75% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 12%
25% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6.9 8.8 10.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 6.7 6.1
4.8 4.5 6 Corners against (avg) C A 1 1.3 3
0.9 0.8 0.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.3 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.1 13 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 13 12.7 13.3
4.2 6.2 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 6 7.6
32% 32% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 44% 53%
Key stats in Kakkonen this season:
  • All of SJK Akatemia's matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • RoPS II have not yet lost a game at home.
  • RoPS II have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • RoPS II have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • RoPS II have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • RoPS II haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SJK Akatemia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • SJK Akatemia have scored in all their matches so far.
  • SJK Akatemia have scored more than double the goals of RoPS II.
  • SJK Akatemia have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the most matches over the total-line (5) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the most scored goals (13) away in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the most scored goals (33) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the the best goal difference (+17) in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Kakkonen
  • SJK Akatemia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • SJK Akatemia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 SJK Akatemia 8 5 1 2 33 16 4 3 1 0 20 9 4 2 0 2 13 7 17 16
2 OTP 8 4 3 1 17 9 4 3 1 0 9 1 4 1 2 1 8 8 8 15
3 Vaajakoski 7 4 2 1 11 6 3 2 1 0 7 3 4 2 1 1 4 3 5 14
4 JJK 6 4 1 1 14 3 4 4 0 0 13 0 2 0 1 1 1 3 11 13
5 JS Hercules 8 4 1 3 17 10 4 3 0 1 10 1 4 1 1 2 7 9 7 13
6 RoPS II 8 4 1 3 11 10 4 3 1 0 8 2 4 1 0 3 3 8 1 13
7 JBK 8 3 3 2 13 14 4 2 2 0 10 6 4 1 1 2 3 8 -1 12
8 VIFK 7 3 0 4 12 21 4 2 0 2 9 8 3 1 0 2 3 13 -9 9
9 OLS 8 2 1 5 8 15 3 1 0 2 3 4 5 1 1 3 5 11 -7 7
9 PS Kemi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Kemi City 7 2 0 5 8 14 4 1 0 3 4 8 3 1 0 2 4 6 -6 6
11 Kraft 7 2 0 5 8 16 3 2 0 1 7 2 4 0 0 4 1 14 -8 6
12 GBK 8 1 1 6 4 22 4 1 1 2 4 8 4 0 0 4 0 14 -18 4

Read more about Kakkonen

Kakkonen is the third highest level of football in Finland. It is divided into three groups based on geographical areas, each with twelve teams. Each club plays the others in the group twice for a total of 22 fixtures to create a final league table. The two top teams in each division then enter a promotion playoff.